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Beyond Deaths and Dollars: Modeling Requirements to Support Equity‐Focused Disaster Risk Management
Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2026.The disaster risk modeling framework has long focused on quantifiable impact metrics to assess a hazard's potential direct effects, such as fatalities (deaths) and economic losses (dollars). Over time, as the framework has expanded to inform both public and private applications, additional impact metrics that more directly consider the societal roots ...
Sabine Loos +3 more
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Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post‐Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India
Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 27-49, January 2026.ABSTRACT In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in
Vasudha Chhotray, David Singh
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Vulnerable knowledge: responding to the uncertainties of climate change‐related disaster
Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract This paper uses uncertainty generated by environmental change and climate crisis as a prompt to rethink the concept of vulnerability within disaster studies. Where some have sought to recover a latent political potential in vulnerability, a togetherness founded in the disclosure of insecurities to others, we argue that there is value in ...
James M. White +2 more
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The history of anatomical engagement
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 12, Page 1337-1348, December 2025.Abstract The public's fascination with anatomy has evolved over time and progressed from avoidance of the tainted yet saintly corpse, to their fascination with cabinets of curiosities. The current narrative review explores public engagement (PE), from its potential origins as cave paintings, to the rise of the disciplinarity of anatomy.
Quenton Wessels, Adam M. Taylor
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International Journal for Simulation and Multidisciplinary Design OptimizationAiming at the problems of low user participation caused by one-way communication in the human-computer interactive interface, insufficient emotional authenticity of digital human interaction, and bottleneck of real-time processing of multimodal data ...
Zhao Boyu, Yue Xiuxia, Yao Xinqiang
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Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2025.Abstract Stories of “mass hysteria” among teenage girls have often graced the headlines of Nepal's local and national newspapers, creating a public spectacle of a strange and mysterious form of affliction. Treatments include both shamanic rituals and psychosocial interventions, a new therapeutic modality that has gained prominence over the past two ...
Aidan Seale‐Feldman
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Eastern Han: A great invention of Zhang Heng’s seismoscope
地震科学进展The Eastern Han Dynasty was a period of rapid development in science, technology and culture. The invention of Zhang Heng’s seismoscope is the most outstanding.
Rui Feng
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Monte Carlo tree search for mass timber building design optimization
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Volume 40, Issue 31, Page 6242-6260, 29 December 2025.Abstract Mass timber construction has gained significant traction in recent years due to its sustainability and lower energy demands. However, its broader adoption remains limited by higher material costs, compared to conventional construction materials.
Samia Zakir Sarothi +3 more
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AI‐Driven Risk Management to Promote SDGs? An Exploratory Study in Jordan Construction Sector
Sustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue S1, Page 1107-1123, November 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of risks controlled by AI on the sustainable performance of the building sector in Jordan. 240 responses were obtained using the survey method from March to May 2024, while respondents from different positions, the size of the company, and demography for a wide representation.
Shatha Mustafa Abdallah Al Qudah +3 more
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工程科学与技术, 2020 Territory of Three-parallel-rivers composing by Nu River, Lantsang River and Jinsha River in Tibet Plateau is a key zone for the study of the geological environment and nature resource development of Tibet Plateau.
Xin YAO +7 more
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